William Boone
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 41 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 16,1920 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Cincinnati |
| Ohio | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | September 14,1983 |
| Died | Urbana |
| Illinois | |
| United States | |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Academic advisor | Alonzo Church |
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| ID | 1817270 |
William Boone Life story
William Werner Boone was an American mathematician. Alonzo Church was his Ph. D. advisor at Princeton, and Kurt Gödel was his friend at the Institute for Advanced Study. Pyotr Novikov showed in 1955 that there exists a finitely presented group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable.
